So-Called Dollars

MOBILE BICENTENNIAL
1911
MOBILE, AL

This was official medal of celebration, proceeds of sale "to go to a fund for a monument or some permanent memorial" of anniversary. Designed by Bicentennial Committee; struck by Whitehead & Hoag; issue limited to 60 Silver and 1,000 Bronze pieces. Silver specimens were presented to New Orleans and Montreal and Bronze ones to 14 other cities "as being closest to Mobile historically."